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<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://abduzeedo.com/files/originals/psbanner-logo_1.png" width="1440" height="900" alt="More awesome Photoshop Secrets!" title="More awesome Photoshop Secrets!" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h3>Lots of cool things in this week's batch from <a href="http://photoshopsecrets.tumblr.com target=" _blank" rel="nofollow">Photoshop Secrets</h3>
<h3>Actions by bjango!</h3>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/marcedwards">Marc Edwards</a> from Bjango creates some super useful Actions and Panel that every Photoshop UI Designer must have!&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/bjango/Bjango-Actions/zipball/master" rel="nofollow">You can download them here.</a></p>
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<p>I highly recommend reading the <a href="http://bjango.com/articles/actions/" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> that comes with it!</p>
<p>While you&rsquo;re at it, check out his tool&nbsp;<a href="http://bjango.com/mac/skalapreview/" rel="nofollow">Skala Preview</a>, the fastest way to send pixel perfect previews from your Mac to your iPhone or iPad.</p>
<h3>Use Keyboard Maestro to Group + Rename at the same time</h3>
<p>Every time I group layers I like to rename the group name to something more Meaningful than Group 1, 2, 3.</p>
<p>So I created a Keyboard Maestro&nbsp;<a href="http://www.stairways.com/main/download" rel="nofollow">Keyboard Maestro</a>&nbsp;Macro that replaces ⌘G with 2 actions, one to Group and another to rename.</p>
<p>To make it work first you need to unassign&nbsp;⌘G as Group from Photoshop by going to Edit &gt; Keyboard Shortcuts | Layer / New / Group</p>
<p>Then <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/36uqps9pc7lh6a9/Group%20%2B%20Rename.kmmacros" rel="nofollow">download the Macro here.</a></p>
<p><span>Just double click the file after installing Keyboard Maestro and it&rsquo;ll be added to your library of shortcuts.&nbsp;</span></p>
<h3>Challenge yourself and hide that toolbar!</h3>
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<p>I very rarely click on the toolbar icons. Instead I use shortcuts.</p>
<p>Why not challenge yourself to hide the toolbar and use shortcuts instead?</p>
<p>Here's the toolbar shortcut map&hellip; Remember if you press ⇧ + the letter, it will toggle between the tools that share that shortcut. Or you can disable that in the Preferences and just press the same letter repeatedly to toggle through the tools.</p>
<p><strong>A</strong> Select Vector</p>
<p><strong>B</strong> Brush, Pencil&hellip;</p>
<p><strong>C</strong> Crop, Slice</p>
<p><strong>D</strong> Set default BG and FG colors (black and white)</p>
<p><strong>E</strong> Eraser</p>
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<p><strong>F</strong> Toggle Screen Modes</p>
<p><strong>G</strong> Gradient, Paint Bucket</p>
<p><strong>H</strong> Move Canvas</p>
<p><strong>I</strong> Eyedropper</p>
<p><strong>J</strong> Healing Brush</p>
<p><strong>K</strong> Rotate 3D Object</p>
<p><strong>L</strong> Lasso</p>
<p><strong>M</strong> Marquee</p>
<p><strong>N</strong> Rotate 3D Camera</p>
<p><strong>O</strong> Color Dodge, Color Burn</p>
<p><strong>P</strong> Pen</p>
<p><strong>Q</strong> Enter Quick Mask Mode</p>
<p><strong>R</strong> Rotate Canvas</p>
<p><strong>S</strong> Clone Stamp</p>
<p><strong>T</strong> Type</p>
<p><strong>U</strong> Shape</p>
<p><strong>V</strong> Move/Select</p>
<p><strong>W</strong> Magic Wand</p>
<p><strong>Y</strong> History Brush</p>
<p><strong>X</strong> Swap BG and FG colors</p>
<p><strong>Z</strong> Zoom</p>
<p><strong>/</strong> Lock layer</p>
<p><strong>1-0</strong>&nbsp;Selected Layer Opacity from 10% to 100% (tap two numbers quickly, like 37, to get specific values. And 00 to set it to 0 opacity.)</p>
<p><strong>Tab</strong> Hide Chrome</p>
<h3>Drag masks from one layer onto another</h3>
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</p>You can drag vector and bitmap masks from one layer into another by holding ⌘⌥ and dragging the mask. It also works on Groups, as demonstrated on the video</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://abduzeedo.com/files/originals/psbanner-logo.png" width="1440" height="900" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h3>For the next few weeks we'll be posting some of the best Photoshop tips from Photoshop Secrets. Some of these tips can greatly optimize your workflow helping you work faster and more precisely.</h3>
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<h3>Feather Shape layers Vector Shape layers can be feathered (blurred) without rasterization.</h3>
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<p>Open the Property Panel by clicking <strong>Window > Properties</strong>, then select a vector shape and adjust the feathering number.</p>
<p>This is great for creating more editable drop shadows that you can bend and change without problems.</p>
<p>As of CS6 you can do decimal increments too, this is particularly useful for smoothing out shapes if you're trying to make a smooth life-like illustrations or icons. I tend to use <strong>.1, .2 or .3</strong> on my shapes when designing icons.</p>
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<h3>User Keyboard Maestro to copy/paste shape colors and styles</h3>
<p>I often need to <strong>copy/paste</strong> colors for shape layers but unfortunately Photoshop gives me no easy way to do that.</p>
<p>As of CS6 right clicking a shape layer gives you an option called "<strong>Copy Shape Attributes</strong>" which would be great if there was a way to set a keyboard shortcut to it, but there isn't, making it kind of useless.</p>
<p>To circumvent this problem I use Keyboard Maestro.</p>
<p>I created 4 macros</p>
<ul>
<li>Copy Color</li>
<li>Copy Color + Style</li>
<li>Paste Color</li>
<li>Paste Color + Style</li>
</ul>
<p>You can download them here: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/803h5plrgt2spzm/IPYPGBBAeN" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/803h5plrgt2spzm/IPYPGBBAeN</a></p>
<p>Just double click the file after installing <strong>Keyboard Maestro</strong> and it'll be added to your library of shortcuts. You can then change it to whatever shortcut you prefer as the ones I set might conflict with a shortcut you already use.</p>
<p>But what if you want to Copy/Paste just the Styles? For that Photoshop lets you do it already by either right clicking on the Style and choosing <strong>Copy/Paste Layer Style</strong>. You can also set a shortcut via <strong>Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts / Layer >Copy</strong>, <strong>Paste and Clear Layer Style</strong>.</p>
<h3>Set default Global Light to 90º</h3>
<p>To set <strong>Global Light</strong> to every new document you create, open Photoshop and make sure you have NO documents open. Then click on<strong> Layer > Layer Styles > Global Light…</strong></p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://abduzeedo.com/files/originals/psbanner-logo_0.png" width="1440" height="900" alt="" title="Super Useful Photoshop Tips" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h3>For the next few weeks we'll be posting some of the best Photoshop tips from <a href="http://photoshopsecrets.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">Photoshop Secrets</a>. Some of these tips can greatly optimize your workflow helping you work faster and more precisely.</h3>
<h3>Move Gradients, Patterns and Shadows from the Style Panel</h3>
<p>When adding gradients, patterns and shadows to a layer, you can drag your canvas to adjust the relative position of the effect.</p>
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<h3>Separate compound shapes or masked bitmap layers into a new layer</h3>
<p>If you have 2 compound shapes in one layer and decide to separate them, the easiest way to do it is to select the shape (with the Path Selection Tool) then hit ⌘⇧J.</p>
<p>This also works if you mask a bitmap layer, it cuts and duplicates it.</p>
<p>⌘J Will duplicate the shape or mask and leave the original intact.</p>
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<h3>Open a duplicate window of your document so you can work on a detailed version</h3>
<p>When creating icons or small assets you may want to see both the 100% view and a zoomed in view so you can edit details and see the original at the same time. You can do so by clicking <strong>Window > Arrange > New Window for [doc_name].</strong></p>
<p>The shortcut you see on the image I created myself by going to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.</p>
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<h3>Press ⇥ while renaming a layer to rename the next layer</h3>
<p>Double click a layer name to rename it, Instead of pressing return, <strong>press ⇥ (tab)</strong> and the layer below will be selected and ready to be renamed. (CS6 only) </p>
<h3>Hide / show all effects on your document</h3>
<p>⌥ click on effects icon to expand/collapse all effects in document (CS6 only)</p>
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<h3>Change Layer opacity and fill opacity with keyboard</h3>
<p>Select a layer and press: 0 for 100% - 1 to 9 for decimals from 10 to 90.</p>
<p>You can also type numbers in fast sequence to set specific opacity such as 25, 37 or 00 for 0%.</p>
<p>Pressing ⇧ plus the numbers changes the Fill opacity.</p>
<p>Make sure that you have the <strong>Move Tool (V)</strong> selected otherwise this will not work.</p>
<p>With the Brush Tool the same shortcuts will set the opacity of the brush.</p>
<p>And in case you don’t know, this is the difference between Opacity and Fill.</p>
<p>Opacity changes the opacity of the entire layer including its styles, whereas Fill keeps the styles intact but knocks out the fill.</p>
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<h3>Change Layer Blending Modes with your keyboard</h3>
<p>Select a layer then:</p>
<ul>
<li>⌥⇧- Previous Blend</li>
<li>⌥⇧+ Next Blend</li>
<li>⌥⇧W Linear Dodge (Add)</li>
<li>⌥⇧E Difference</li>
<li>⌥⇧T Saturation</li>
<li>⌥⇧Y Luminosity</li>
<li>⌥⇧U Hue</li>
<li>⌥⇧I Dissolve</li>
<li>⌥⇧O Overlay</li>
<li>⌥⇧A Linear Burn</li>
<li>⌥⇧S Screen</li>
<li>⌥⇧D Color Dodge</li>
<li>⌥⇧F Soft Light</li>
<li>⌥⇧G Lighten</li>
<li>⌥⇧H Hard Light</li>
<li>⌥⇧J Linear Light</li>
<li>⌥⇧K Darken</li>
<li>⌥⇧L Hard Mix</li>
<li>⌥⇧Z Pin Light</li>
<li>⌥⇧X Exclude</li>
<li>⌥⇧C Color</li>
<li>⌥⇧V Vivid Light</li>
<li>⌥⇧B Color Burn</li>
<li>⌥⇧N Normal</li>
<li>⌥⇧M Multiply</li>
</ul>
<h3>Change text size with your keyboard</h3>
<p>Select text by double clicking a text layer or manually selecting.</p>
<ul>
<li>⌘⇧< Smaller by 2 points</li>
<li>⌘⇧> Bigger by 2 points</li>
<li>⌘⌥⇧< Smaller by 10 points</li>
<li>⌘⌥⇧> Bigger by 10 points</li>
</ul>
<h3>Make your Layer Styles into Layers.</h3>
<p>Disconnect Styles from Layers by right clicking on effects and clicking <strong>“Create Layers”.</strong></p>
<p>This allows you to better manipulate effects, especially good for patterns, so you can morph them around a “3D” shape.
You can also better adjust a drop shadow by cropping it or transforming it.</p>
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